RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 265, 12 November 1904, Page 2

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

GENERAL STOESSEL ASKS FOH i AN ARMISTICE. BLOCKADE RUNNING. LONDON, Nov. 10. It is reported at Tokio that Genoial NtiioM.M'l usl.ed for un armistice ( fur u pui pose nut staled. The Japanese hope there «ill be capitulation before tile city proper is taken. They are angry ut the outrages on Japuiieso wounded. The Russians tear they will be murdered if captured. Hie Japanese, in shelling Itzushan, caused U>o Russian casualties. It is stated in «t. Petersburg that a British steamer delivered 40,000 projectiles at Tori Arthur. The Japanese captured a second similar cargo. Russiu offered the owners of the steamer a bonus olj a million roubles. GARRISON'S SUFFERINGS. TERRIBLE STORIES FROM THE FORTRESS. (Received Nov. 11, 10.3 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 11. The soldiers of the garrison at I'c.rt Arthur are greatly emaciated. The rations for lighters is two pounds of black bread daily. The city is uninhabitable, many people living in caverns outside the danger zone. The dead are thrown into a dock near Golden 'Hill, wheie they lie covered with a few inches of water. No money circulates, and wages are paid in kind. The Russians u»e re-filling old Chinese shells, several of which have been found to contain half a bursting ■ charge, the rest of the space he'.nj, filled with wood. The report that General Stoessel had astaod for an i armistice is not confirmed. It is ollicially reported in Tokio that the army warehouse in the I northern part of Port AnUiur was ; bombarded on the 6th, the heavy . siege and naval guns causing a con- ; flagratian. Shells also destroyed ! the old batteries on Sungshushan. j I (Received Nov. 11, 10.10 p.m.) I LONDON, Nov. 11. Mr Bennett Burleigh, Daily Tele- • graph correspondent, reports that ■ the Japanese fire is now so severe , that It compels the waiships in , the docks at Port Arthur to ; itje constantly shifting their i tions. It ds expected thai they will • endeavour to make another sally i from the harbour. I j GENERAL WAR ITEMS. Gener»l Linevitch has assumed - command of the first Manchurian army. ] A Japanese internal loan of eighty million yen was cowered over threei fold. I Disinclination among reservists to , join tho colours is general in Hussiu. It is believed that 20,000 have escaped. Military! men assert that the equipment of another couple of army corps will exhaust tho Russian stock ' of really efficiently trained men. M. Miraki, Russian Minister for tho Interior, has warned the Czar thut the war is causing a steadily increasing and dangerous dijeoatttlt among the people. Two companies of Russians, on the night of the Bth inst, attacked the Japanese outposts at Shaho, and were repulsed. Otherwise things are quiet in that district.

■Replying to a deputation of Polish nobles the Czar thanked them for their devotion, und said he was convinced that bad times would unite them in the brotherhood of the Empire.

Admiral Alexieff's stall declares he is still Viceroy, and denies that ho drafted Kuropntkin's proclamation to the troops prior to the last battle.